Truth, Justice, and the American Way

Brilliant idea: Make LOVE not SPAM.
This is a screensaver that will download a few MB from spammer’s sites each day, and thus make spamming a less profitable proposition.

A commercial: as a volcano erupts in the distance, chunks of rock start falling from the sky, and we see that one of them is actually a Jeep Grand Cherokee, which then drives off. Small text on the bottom of the screen: Do Not Attempt.

The physics hit parade: the top five equations of all time.

As I was channel surfing just now, I noticed a PBS cartoon with a dragon in a wheel chair. How absurd can this multiculturalism thing get?
In other news, almost every single unsecured wireless router I come across still has the default password. This allows any passerby to not only monitor [...]

Have a great one and dont forget whom you should be thankful to.

Man tries to convert lions to Jesus, gets bitten. Commentary.

Unfortunately, WordPress, the blog script running this site, still requires manual filtering of comment spam, so I almost missed nearly a dozen comments when cleaning up the spam tonight, including this one:
I love reading this blog. Its because of it that Ive started reading into Objectivism.
Thanks, Garrett. If Ive missed any other compliments (or [...]

A pretty good story in the Wall Street Journal, with references to Ayn Rand and Objectivism: “A Less-Visible Role For the Fed Chief: Freeing Up Markets Greenspan Blessed Mergers And Blocked Regulation; Using the 1800s as a Model.” Greenspan is currently mentioned in the #1, #4, and #6 most popular WSJ articles, while Bush [...]

Anne Bayefsky @ OpinionJournal: “The U.N. discovers the cause of anti-Semitism: Jews”

I’ve got some new stuff in my essay section.

Robert McHenry, the former Editor in Chief of the Encyclopdia Britannica slams WikiPedia hard: The user who visits Wikipedia to learn about some subject, to confirm some matter of fact, is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, [...]

Check out this MSNBC profile on Intellectual Ventures, a company created by Microsoft alumni Nathan Myhrvold with a bold new business plan: create a marketplace for intellectual property. Rather than produce any material good, the company does nothing but buy up patents and lease them to the highest bidder.

This development is significant [...]

If you want blog icons like the ones you see on the left of this page, I have a collection of 100+ here.

By the way, I still have a ton of Gmail invites for anyone who wants one. Gmail just added some cool new features like POP access and forwarding, so you should check it out if you haven’t already.

In response to the recent ballyhoo about red vs blue states, a Princeton prof created a color-gradated county-level map which makes the real trend clear: large urban cities vs. America. Kerrys support came primarily from those who didn’t attend high school (50% ) and post-grads (55%). In areas with a high-concentration of both, [...]

Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe gives Arafat the obituary he deserves.

Also read Elan Journo’s piece: Arafat’s Undeserved Honor: The West’s Shame

Its an open secret that government bureaucracies in the United States hire minority racial groups significantly over their proportion in the general population. According to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the EEOC overhired blacks by 623%, the U.S. Dept. of Education overhired by 462% and HUD overhired by 430%. Other federal [...]

Firefox 1.0 is out! You should download a copy from my website right now!

If you havent heard of Firefox before, its a new web browser descended from Mozilla and Netscape. Compared to Internet Explorer, it is faster, more secure, more customizable, theme-able and extensible. Its designed to be compatible with the latest [...]

Ayn Rand Institute press releases are now included in Google News. I have not seen press releases by other organizations on Google News, so this is quite an accomplishment.

The U.S. Air Force recently published a “Teleportation Physics Report,” which among other things, calls for $7.5 million to conduct psychic teleportation experiments. An Air Force Research Lab spokesman justified the report by stating “If we don’t turn over stones, we don’t know if we have missed something.”

What kind of philosophic corruption makes such [...]